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... thousand adventures in his efforts to escape more handling of the same sort ; we find him writing to the Churches , and congratulating himself , while informing them , that what had happened unto him had fallen out rather to the ...
... thousand adventures in his efforts to escape more handling of the same sort ; we find him writing to the Churches , and congratulating himself , while informing them , that what had happened unto him had fallen out rather to the ...
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... thousand such things , may be regu- lated one way or another , according to the will of the peo- ple , without the claims of religion being violated . But whatever form of government they may adopt , the benefit of the people ought to ...
... thousand such things , may be regu- lated one way or another , according to the will of the peo- ple , without the claims of religion being violated . But whatever form of government they may adopt , the benefit of the people ought to ...
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... thousand free coloured people , and mostly in the slaveholding states . Together they amount to above one - sixth of our whole population . The southern states , which contain all but a fraction of this people , do not contain one ...
... thousand free coloured people , and mostly in the slaveholding states . Together they amount to above one - sixth of our whole population . The southern states , which contain all but a fraction of this people , do not contain one ...
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... thousands of channels at which I have glanced that are open to them , and full to overflow- ing . The very fact that slaves can neither read nor write , makes them cultivate with more care their memories , * and like all other ...
... thousands of channels at which I have glanced that are open to them , and full to overflow- ing . The very fact that slaves can neither read nor write , makes them cultivate with more care their memories , * and like all other ...
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... thousand men with a large portion of officers , together with one or two hundred thousand stand of arms , to land at some two or three places , and proclaim freedom to the slaves , and give them arms and engage to lead them , what is ...
... thousand men with a large portion of officers , together with one or two hundred thousand stand of arms , to land at some two or three places , and proclaim freedom to the slaves , and give them arms and engage to lead them , what is ...
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Page 53 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 74 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Page 69 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 99 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows...
Page 73 - For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward...
Page 106 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Page 75 - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Page 112 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of My 'wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Page 69 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Page 111 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.